by Nat Hentoff
Added to cato.org on August 20, 2009
This article appeared in RealClearPolitics.com on August 20, 2009.
I was not intimidated during J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI hunt for reporters like me who criticized him. I railed against the Bush-Cheney war on the Bill of Rights without blinking. But now I am finally scared of [...]
It is important to understand the constitutionality of what happened in Honduras with the removal of President Manuel Zelaya, their Constitutional process, how the law was upheld, and how the Obama administration is advocating a policy in direct conflict with the ‘rule-of-law.’ Juan Carlos Hidalgo, the project coordinator for Latin American, at the Cato [...]
The Cato Institute and it’s scholars, Michael D. Tanner and Michael F. Cannon dissect the president’s health care plan point by point in the following video. Please take the time to watch this short video which moves back and fourth between what President Obama said in the ABC New special on health care reform [...]
Tonight, ABC will be turning its airwaves over to the White House as it promotes the President’s health care reform agenda. We have tried repeatedly to convince ABC to allow us to at least run an ad prior to the broadcast to provide just a few seconds of balance, but we have been rebuffed.
We hope [...]
The Folly of the National Sales Tax
Mises Daily by Eric M. Staib | Posted on 6/17/2009 12:00:00 AM
Facing a historic national debt that President Obama correctly characterized as “unsustainable,” yet still desiring to implement some sort of national health-care package, US policymakers, notably Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad and former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul [...]
Just a quick introductory note to the piece by Peter Boettke, you must keep reading, past the first two points, to get the the meat of Boettke’s brilliant insights to Obama’s rhetoric and reality. If you stop before then you might think Boettke is making an apologetic for Presient Obama. He is not.
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Once again Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute has produced an excellent video which describes the factors that lead to economic growth. This is an easy to understand, “Economics 101,” video which will equip you with some of the fundamental principles on how the economy works. And it will show you why bigger [...]
By Dr. Steven Horwitz
We, at the For Freedom’s Sake blog, strive to bring clear arguments, written in plain English, into the marketplace of ideas in an effort to educate those who are willing to invest their time to understand what is going on in the world around them. We have found Dr. Steven Horwitz [...]
Edwin Meese III, the 75th Attorney General of the United States, writes in an essay entitled, “The Meaning of the Constitution,” that “Part of the reason for the Constitution’s enduring strength is that it is the complement of the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration provided the philosophical basis for a government that exercises legitimate power [...]
